INTER-IMPERIAL TRADE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 14 June 1935, Page 7

INTER-IMPERIAL TRADE

Prime Minister Urges Reciprocity—Not Restriction PAYABLE MARKETS WANTED ADDRESS AT STOKE (United Press Aseoaauco— By JBectrlo Telegrapn Copyright.) Received 1 p.m. to-day. LONDON, June 13. The Prime Minister o£ New Zealand, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, and Mrs Forbes, Sir James Parr, High Commissioner for New Zealand, and representatives of New Zealand produce boards were civically welcomed to Stoke. They visited Hanley, Burslem and TunstaLl and attended a reciprocal trading demonstration stole laden with New Zealand products, arranged to celebrate New Zealand’s decision to admit British table china duty free. Mr Forbes, speaking at a luncheon, pointed out that New Zealand’s imports of British pottery amounted to £122,000 in 1934, compared with £93,000 in 1933 and that more than half of New Zealand’s imports came from Britain and 73 per cent, from the Empire. New Zealand could double her agricultural production within five years, he said, but it would be useless unless she was assured of payable markets. Every effort should be made to expaucl inter-imperial trade instead of thinking in terms of restriction.